Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri Float – A Rum Dessert Cocktail

A great combination of dessert and cocktail in one, a frozen strawberry daiquiri float on top of vanilla ice cream!

As frequent readers of our blog know, we are kind of obsessed with making lots of classic craft cocktails. Every now and then it is fun to wander away from the classics into something new, with this frozen daiquiri. One way to find something new is to see what you our readers are looking to drink this spring and summer and get some inspiration from that!

The other day we did a little poll on our Facebook page to see what our readers might want to see (you are following us on Facebook aren’t you?) and posed a poll of some popular drinks that you readers might like to see us make!

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Daiquiri Float

The people have spoken and it seems that a whole bunch of our readers are into daiquiris! The daiquiri is often considered one of the essential cocktails to know, a classic from the 1800’s and a famous drink in popular culture over the many years since its invention!

It was originally conceived by an American who was living in Cuba in the years after the Spanish American war. It’s quintessentially a tropical feeling cocktail, using lime juice, cane sugar and the most tropical of spirits, rum.

What is the History of the Daiquiri?

The original recipe is really simple, consisting of cane sugar and fresh lime juice and white rum. The tart lime and bold dark flavor from the cane sugar dominated the flavor of the original drink. They combined into a refreshing sweet tart drink that helped cut through the heat and humidity of Cuba’s warm nights!

The daiquiri really didn’t spread much further than the shores of Cuba until the 1920’s and 1930’s when a bartender at the Floridita in Havana added shaved ice and a blender to the equation and the frozen daiquiri was born! Perfectly cool and infinitely more summer sip-able than the original. The frozen daiquiri was the perfect respite from the sweltering Cuban heat.

It was at this point the Daiquiri was exposed to a much wider audience thanks to noted writer and drinker, Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was known to haunt the rail at the Floridita where he often found drinking his take on the daiquiri. (The Papa Doble aka skip the sugar and double the rum!) and writing dispatches from Cuba.

Hemingway’s fame and romantic vision of this tropical drink and America’s growing obsession with all things tropical (see the Tiki craze of the 1950s and our take on Tiki) made this a drink popular at cocktail and pool parties alike!

What flavors did we want to Use in the Daiquiri?

Now that you know a little history, its time to mix it up a bit! We decided to combine two of our favorite things, cocktails and boozy desserts. So we then made our Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri Float! We love the combination of strawberry and rhubarb, and with both in season in the spring, it is the perfect time to combine these flavors into an delicious syrup.

Strawberry Rhubarb is a great combination of sweet and sour. This works really well with the sweet tart flavors of a daiquiri, adding a bright summery freshness to the daiquiri.

What Ingredients are Needed for the Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri Float?

Strawberry Rhubarb Syrup

Strawberries

Sugar

Water

Rhubarb

Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri

Ice

Lime Juice

White Rum

Strawberry Rhubarb Syrup

Strawberries

Vanilla Ice Cream

With the cocktail part of this taken care of, we need to bring in the dessert part! What also goes really well with strawberries? How about vanilla ice cream! We love strawberry rhubarb pie ala mode, so why not combine a strawberry rhubarb daiquiri with some vanilla ice cream?

We poured the Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri over a couple of scoops of ice cream, because why not? So we then made ourselves a “Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri Float!”

Perfect for sipping by the pool on a hot summer night, you really need to give the Strawberry Rhubarb Daiquiri Float a try. This combination is a real winner! The ice cream really pulls out the rum flavors and adds a cool creamy sweetness to the tart daiquiri making this a delicious boozy treat!

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Whaaaat you made it a float?! That is the coolest idea ever! I’m a little Strawberry Rhubarb obsessed right now (seriously- so obsessed), and I think we all need to have a spring cocktail party with these!!! 😀